Japanese Ghost Stories - Penguin Classics

The dead wreak revenge on the living, paintings come alive, spectral brides possess mortal men and a priest devours human flesh in these chilling Japanese ghost stories retold by a master of the supernatural. Lafcadio Hearn drew on the phantoms and ghouls of traditional Japanese folklore - including the headless 'rokuro-kubi', the monstrous goblins 'jikininki' or the faceless 'mujina' who stalk lonely neighbourhoods - and infused them with his own memories of his haunted childhood in nineteenth-century Ireland to create these terrifying tales of striking and eerie power. Today they are regarded in Japan as classics in their own right.Edited with an introduction by Paul Murray

ISBN:	9780241381274
Publisher:	Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:	Penguin Classics
Published date:	25 Jul 2019
DEWEY:	813.4
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	xl, 227
Weight:	202g
Height:	197mm
Width:	129mm
Spine width:	16mm

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